Tom Raffa

Tom Raffa, formerly CEO of the Raffa, P.C. and now Marcum's National Leader of Raffa - Marcum's Nonprofit & Social Sector Group, remains the owner and shareholder in several other companies each of which work to catalyze positive systemic change throughout the country and beyond.

Organizations he's created and incubated, the multiple levels of support he's provided and channeled, have been instrumental in advancing the US nonprofit and emerging social sector. Tom's brainchild for moving corporate philanthropy from good intentions to strategic impact, Companies for Causes, was awarded the Pearl Foundation Award for Innovation in Philanthropy and today, with consulting enterprise such as Vardaan which is in India, Tom seeks to drive effective philanthropy across a new landscape of mandated corporate responsibility opportunity. More than just an "early adopter", Tom has been an industry pioneer since 1984, committed to using his business enterprise as a force for good. Building multiple companies over three decades, Raffa, PC - a certified B Corp and Top 100 nationally-ranked, woman-owned CPA and advisory firm, Raffa Financial Services, Inc., Raffa Wealth Management, Raffa Solutions (now t/a ThinkNimble), Raffa Social Capital Advisors, Vardaan (a social company in India) and Raffa Risk Management with more than 300 professionals devoted to serving the social sector and with a deep bench of expertise and service lines to support almost every aspect of the nonprofit and social impact sectors from traditional audits, accounting and tax to niches in IT, HR, wealth management, governance, benefits and insurance, strategy, fund raising, Raffa "Do More" companies' capacity to serve and strengthen nonprofits and social enterprise remains unparalleled.

Tom's current Board roles include, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra (Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee and member of the Executive Committee), the Mental Health Coalition (Founding Member) and the Park City Community Foundation (Chair of the Governance and Communication Committee and of the Audit Committee and member of the Executive Committee). He has served on the board of the United Way of the National Capital Area and spent over a decade serving the Catalogue for Philanthropy including being the Chair of the Board and he is also a founding member of the Alliance for Nonprofit Management and Social Impact 360.

A graduate of Georgetown University, Tom has been an active member of the Alumni Admissions Program and has served as a mentor at the McDonough School of Business for more than 20 years. He was named the Georgetown Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year in 2016.

Tom is a CPA, licensed in the District of Columbia and New York and an active member of AICPA.